Table 2.
Prevalence of DSM-IV/CIDI PTSD associated with sexual assault among female respondents with randomly selected sexual assault by survey (n=411)a
| % PTSD | (95% CI) | Number with PTSDb | Total sample sizeb | |
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| I. High income countries | ||||
| Belgium | 96.9 | (60.7-99.8) | (4) | (7) |
| Germany | 5.3 | (1.0-23.4) | (4) | (21) |
| Netherlands | 13.3 | (3.6-38.9) | (5) | (22) |
| Northern Ireland | 19.7 | (6.0-48.4) | (4) | (18) |
| Spain | 55.5 | (23.9-83.2) | (4) | (7) |
| Spain – Murcia | 17.2 | (4.1-50.3) | (1) | (10) |
| United States | 24.2 | (15.2-33.1) | (68) | (201) |
| Total | 24.0 | (16.2-31.7) | (90) | (286) |
| II. Low or middle income countries | ||||
| Colombia – Medellin | 8.4 | (3.1-20.8) | (6) | (57) |
| Lebanon | 21.9 | (4.8-60.9) | (1) | (6) |
| Mexico | 11.1 | (2.8-35.0) | (6) | (29) |
| South Africa | 17.8 | (5.0-47.3) | (3) | (11) |
| Ukraine | 15.0 | (3.6-45.4) | (2) | (22) |
| Total | 11.7 | (3.9-19.5) | (18) | (125) |
| III. Total | 20.2 | (14.3-26.1) | (108) | (411) |
| High vs low or middle difference χ21 | 5.4 |
Each respondent who reported lifetime exposure to one or more Traumatic Event (TEs) had one occurrence of one such experience selected at random for detailed assessment. Each of these randomly selected TEs was weighted by the inverse of its probability of selection at the respondent level to create a weighted sample of TEs that was representative of all TEs in the population. The randomly selected sexual assaults were the subset of these randomly selected TEs involving sexual assault. The sum of weights of the randomly selected sexual assaults was standardized within surveys to sum to the observed number of female respondents whose randomly selected TE was a sexual assault. The n reported in the last column of this table represents that number of respondents. The results reported here are for the surveys where at least one female respondent with a randomly selected sexual assault met DSM-IV/CIDI criteria for PTSD related to that TE. Eight surveys were excluded because there were no cases of PTSD associated with the randomly selected sexual assault: Brazil (n=4), Colombia (n=26), Israel (n=13), Japan (n=4), Peru (n=17), Romania (n=5), France (n=8), Italy (n=7). Male respondents were excluded because of the small number of men across surveys whose randomly-selected TE was sexual assault (n=32).
The reported sample sizes are unweighted. The unweighted proportions of respondents with PTSD do not match the prevalence estimates in the first column because the latter were based on weighted data. Confidence intervals that include 0.0% as the lower bound were estimated using the Wilson-score method.35